Practicability Quotes

#1. In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

Chester W. Nimitz

#3. I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Nikola Tesla

#4. It is not that I believe ideals are unimportant, even among the realities of war; but if a nation is to survive in a hostile world, its ideals must be backed by the hard logic of military practicability.

Charles Lindbergh

#5. There was a certain scientific practicability even in his love-making, and it here came out excellently.

Thomas Hardy

#6. If a minister wants to be a man among men he need only to stop creating devotion to abstract ideals which every one accepts in theory and denies in practice, and to agonize about their validity and practicability in the social issues which he and others face in our present civilization.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#7. Go ahead and rip them ... you know you want to.

Christina Lauren

#8. Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?

Thomas Szasz

#9. Isn't it weird? The way you remember things when it's gone.

Sarah Dessen

#10. Vallon was said to have a Puritan conscience but I had never met his conscience.

Ross Macdonald

#11. Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Baltasar Gracian